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1 BBBBBBBBB D. No. 294,852; .Patented Mar. 11, 1884.

Evy 5 `HABLAN r. OOLBY, OF CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN, AssIeNOR OF ONE-HALF To n. L. nLMs, or sAMn PLACE.

VEHCLE-BO SPECIFICATION'forining Ypart of Letters Patent No. 294,852, dated March 11, 1884.

J Application filed April S), 1883. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARLAN P. COL'BY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Charlotte, in the county of Eaton and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Vehicle-Body, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in vehicle-bodies in which the panels are secured IO at the corners by outside and inside cornerirons and rabbeted into sills having an inside solid bead; and the objects of my improvement are, iirst, to provide a firm, substantial, and durable vehicle-body, having all the parts so r 5 united as to support and strengthen each other; second, to prevent the corners from spreading or opening; third, to provide a strong sill to receive and support the panel and prevent displacement from outside or inside pressure, and,l fourth, to afford facility in the ready construction of vehicle-bodies. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, -in Which- Figure 1 is a sectional view at one of the 2 5 corners, showing the rabbeted sill and the corner with an outside and inside corner-iron at-- tached, together with a rail on the top of the panel. Fig. 2 is a top view of a corner ofthe body, showing the outside corner-iron and the 3o ed. Fig. 8 is a sectional view of the sill, and Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of the outside of the corner of the body completed.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The sill C, the panel A, the rail B, the outside and inside corner-irons, G and F, respect ively constitute the various parts of the body. The sill C, Fig. 3, is cut with a rabbet, H, for receiving the panel A, and is also made with a solid bead, D, upon the inside, running its entire length, for the purpose of strengthening the sill, holding the lower edge of the panel firmly in place, and forming a strong and closeiitting joint. The corner-iron G, Fig. 2, has a rib, fr, its whole length, projecting inward, for thepurpose of fittinginto transverse grooves in the panels A A near the ends, thereby preventing any possibility of the body parting at 5o the corners, and is bolted or riveted to the body inside corner-iron as intended to be constructl by bolts or rivets passing through the panel, and attached to the corner-iron upon the inside, as F F, Fig. 2. The corner-iron F F, through which the bolts h h pass, fits snugly and' securely in the corner of the ibody, as 55 shown in Fig. 2, and is also provided with a shoulder for receiving the rail B, and a footing, Figs. l and 2, through which passes a bolt, c, to strengthen `and fasten the corners of the panels securely to the sill. that a top rail, B, will be placed around the top of the panels A A, and bolts b b' will be put through ,the top rail, B, the panels A A, and the bed-pieces or sills (l C. I now place together the bed-pieces or sills C C, cut of any desirable uniform length, with the panels forming the sides of the body, and drive the lower edge of the panels A A into the grooves HH of the sills C C. The outside cornerirons, G G, are then driven from the top down over the 7o corners, the projecting ribs z' i tting into the transverse 'grooves cut in the panels torcceive them. Then I put the rail B around the top of the body, and put the bolts b bthroughthe rail B, the panels A A and the sills C C having holes bored at corresponding intervals, as at c e, Fig. 2. The outside corner-irons, G G, are then fastened by bolts or rivets 7L h, passing through the panels A A; or an inside corneriron, F F, lpreviously described, can be used 8o for receiving the bolts or rivets on the inside.

I am aware that bolted buggy-bodies, grooved sills, and corner-irons have been in use prior to my invention. I therefore do not'claim a patent for constructing buggy-bodies by means of bolting the panels to the sills, nor securing the corners by corner-irons, nor groo ving the sill for receiving the panel.

Il am aware that the panels of wagon and carriage bodies have been provided with a bead 90 which limits the point to which the bottom of the panel can be inserted. If it happens that the groove is deeper than that part of the panel below the bead, the panel will rest entirely upon the bead, which is thus rendered liable to breakage, and that I do not claim. My device differs from that form, in that the bead is formed upon the sill, so that when the panel is placed in the groove, no matter how deep, it will always rest upon the bot-tom. Furthermore, by `.TOO

It is also intended 6o making the bead upon the sill, the liability of I nation of one ofthe walls of the groove, with a panel xvithoutbeads near its bottom, and restits being broken oft' is less than it Would be if it were placed upon the panel, as anything resting thereon would only tend to crush it. while on the panel the bead or part of it would be broken oil', unless it were evenly supported, and if the groove were not deep enough the liability of its breaking' oli' would be even greater,

I ani also aware that wagon-body cornerA irons have been provided with ilanges which lit into grooves out into the Wagon-body, and that inside corner-irons are old, and theSe l do not elaini; but

lVhat I do elaiin is-d l. In Wagon-bodies, the eonlbinationof a sill having a groeve and a bead forming a Contining` upon` the bottoni of the groove, substantially as described. Y

2. In a ngen-body, the combination ol" a sill having` a groove and abead forming a oontinuation of the wall of the groove, panel resting` in said groove, a top rail resting upon the panel, an outer angle-iron having ribs resting in groove in said panel, an inner angle-iron having;` a rabbet for the top rail, and bolts for elainping the whole together, Substantially as described.

n lfl'AIlfLAN l. )Olil llitnesses:

C. M. Jnmrnros,

H. M. losenavn. 

